Dictionary

rein in en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. To stop or slow a horse by pulling the reins
2. (figuratively) To stop or slow something, by exercising control.
   • “As you are well aware, over the last few months we’ve made a considerable effort to rein in costs, but it simply hasn’t been enough,” Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, said in a note to employees on Monday. 2023 January 23, Isabella Simonetti, quoting Daniel Ek, “Spotify to Lay Off 6% of Its Work Force”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023:
   • The government has no other option than to rein in public spending.

Forms

Translations (23)

sv tygla (stop or slow something) · nl beteugelen (stop or slow something) · de zügeln (stop or slow a horse) · fi hillitä (stop or slow something) · fi suitsia (stop or slow something) · fi hillitä (stop or slow a horse) · pl zatrzymywać (stop or slow something) · pl zatrzymywać konia (stop or slow a horse) · fi pysäyttää (stop or slow a horse) · pl stopować (stop or slow something) · pl zatrzymać (stop or slow something) · pl zatrzymać konia (stop or slow a horse) · pl kontrolować (stop or slow something) · pt frear (stop or slow something) · es sofrenar (stop or slow a horse) · pl panować (stop or slow something) · pt frear (stop or slow a horse) · hu megzaboláz (stop or slow a horse) · de zügeln (stop or slow something) · ru обу́здывать (stop or slow something) · ru сде́рживать (stop or slow something) · es sofrenar (stop or slow something) · hu megzaboláz (stop or slow something)